Psychology Quote by Stanisław Lem

“Labor is an antidote for angst and general misery, and the fear that the Devil is going to grab you by the throat at…

— Ann Rice

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a…

— Thomas Mann

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation,…

— Theodor Adorno

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the…

— Andrew Solomon

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

— Chaim Potok

“Thus Freud's discoveries, for example, far from unveiling for us a realm which is genuinely new, a knowledge that is other than conscious knowledge,…

— Sandor Goodhart

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that…

— Carl Sagan

“The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of…

— Herbert Read

“In Freud’s theory, the wish-producing, fear-generating power of these body parts lies within them, not, with their strategic position within a historically specific, male-dominant,…

— Jonathan Ned Katz

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or…

— Bat for Lashes